{"title":"Tourist Spot Recommendation Applying Generic Object Recognition with Travel Photos","authors":"Risa Kitamura, T. Itoh","doi":"10.1109/iV.2018.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2018.00011","url":null,"abstract":"Thanks to the recent spread of smartphones, tablets and digital cameras, people can take photos easily anytime, and anywhere. Therefore, photos can be a tool to record life logs. We can estimate patterns of actions and movements of people by analyzing their photos. Based on this discussion, we are developing a technique to recommend tourist spots based on the estimation of users' preferences of traveling plans from their past personal travel photos by using generic object recognition. We applied a generic object recognition system to acquire keywords of subject information taken in the photos and represented the co-occurrence of the keywords by a graph visualization technique. This paper presents our travel recommendation technique and a visual user interface that represents a graph with travel photos based on our graph visualization technique. This paper also introduces our case study with real travel photos.","PeriodicalId":312162,"journal":{"name":"2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127720494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Visualization to improve Clustering Analysis on Heterogeneous Information Network","authors":"Wenbo Wang, Yuwei Li, Feng Wang, Xiaopei Liu, Youyi Zheng","doi":"10.1109/iV.2018.00046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2018.00046","url":null,"abstract":"The exploration and analysis of data mining methodologies is an important task for effective knowledge discovery, especially in today's heterogeneous information networks. Previously presented approaches for mining optimization aim primarily at the improvements of time complexity, space complexity, accuracy, and robustness. We extend the state-of-the-art method by concentrating on user-availability and algorithm understandability. Specifically, we use Rankclus, a classic clustering algorithm as an example. After uncovering the unseen computing processes to be displayed in a visual form, the whole clustering processes are transparent to the users, which may help them more clearly and quickly understand how the algorithms are computed, how does each object influence one another. In addition, we use a density approach to intuitively simplify the discovery of data patterns, and through the visualized results, users can adjust algorithm parameters with or without professional training. Finally, we use another two visual techniques to improve the visualization quality: a heatmap matrix designed for checking the similarities of objects which are in the same cluster, and a DOItree implemented to further analyze the accuracy of the algorithms.","PeriodicalId":312162,"journal":{"name":"2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124314085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Preliminary Study of Metrics and Methods for Readable Spatial OLAP Maps: VGI4Bio Case Study","authors":"V. D. Fatto, S. Bimonte, Ali Hassan, M. Sebillo","doi":"10.1109/iV.2018.00058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2018.00058","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial OLAP systems are GeoBusiness Intelligence systems allowing the exploration and analysis of huge volume of spatial data by means of tabular, graphic and cartographic displays. Although map readability is crucial for decision-making processes, readability of SOLAP maps has not been deeply investigated. In this paper, a initial study on readability metrics for SOLAP maps and methods to improve them are presented and discussed. The results are validated by using a real case study concerning farmland biodiversity analysis. Some open issues associated to this topic are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":312162,"journal":{"name":"2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124323920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualizing Student Flows to Track Retention and Graduation Rates","authors":"D. Horváth, Roland Molontay, Mihaly Szabo","doi":"10.1109/iV.2018.00064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2018.00064","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding, modeling and visualizing student performance and academic progress have attracted considerable research attention recently. In particular, early leaving and retention of students are central problems associated with significant personal and social cost. In this study, we provide an efficient visualization tool to analyze student flow patterns by alluvial and Sankey diagrams. We tracked the progress of more than 30,000 undergraduate students from Budapest University of Technology and Economics enrolled between 2010 and 2017. Our method allows decision-makers to gain better insight on how students are progressing. This tool also makes easier to understand the effects of some policy changes on retention and graduation rates.","PeriodicalId":312162,"journal":{"name":"2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126644824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Revision Control System for Image Editing in Collaborative Multimedia Design","authors":"Fabio Calefato, G. Castellano, Veronica Rossano","doi":"10.1109/iV.2018.00095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2018.00095","url":null,"abstract":"Revision control is a vital component in the collaborative development of artifacts such as software code and multimedia. While revision control has been widely deployed for text files, very few attempts to control the versioning of binary files can be found in the literature. This can be inconvenient for graphics applications that use a significant amount of binary data, such as images, videos, meshes, and animations. Existing strategies such as storing whole files for individual revisions or simple binary deltas, respectively consume significant storage and obscure semantic information. To overcome these limitations, in this paper we present a revision control system for digital images that stores revisions in form of graphs. Besides, being integrated with Git, our revision control system also facilitates artistic creation processes in common image editing and digital painting workflows. A preliminary user study demonstrates the usability of the proposed system.","PeriodicalId":312162,"journal":{"name":"2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116079692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuefan Hao, Zhijie Xu, Y. Liu, Jing Wang, Jiu-lun Fan
{"title":"A Graphical Simulator for Modeling Complex Crowd Behaviors","authors":"Yuefan Hao, Zhijie Xu, Y. Liu, Jing Wang, Jiu-lun Fan","doi":"10.1109/iV.2018.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2018.00012","url":null,"abstract":"Abnormal crowd behaviors of varied real-world settings could represent or pose serious threat to public safety. The video data required for relevant analysis are often difficult to acquire due to security, privacy and data protection issues. Without large amounts of realistic crowd data, it is difficult to develop and verify crowd behavioral models, event detection techniques, and corresponding test and evaluations. This paper presented a synthetic method for generating crowd movements and tendency based on existing social and behavioral studies. Graph and tree searching algorithms as well as game engine-enabled techniques have been adopted in the study. The main outcomes of this research include a categorization model for entity-based behaviors following a linear aggregation approach; and the construction of an innovative agent-based pipeline for the synthesis of A-Star path-finding algorithm and an enhanced Social Force Model. A Spatial-Temporal Texture (STT) technique has been adopted for the evaluation of the model’s effectiveness. Tests have highlighted the visual similarities between STTs extracted from the simulations and their counterparts – video recordings - from the real-world.","PeriodicalId":312162,"journal":{"name":"2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128397592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Graph-Based Visualization of Time-Series Information in Multiple Texts","authors":"Hironari Kawada, Mina Akaishi, H. Hosobe","doi":"10.1109/iV.2018.00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2018.00018","url":null,"abstract":"Newspapers and other media often describe particular topics over some periods by giving a series of texts that introduces new information and corrects previous information. By analyzing such texts, we can understand how a topic changed over time and how the media treated it. However, analyzing such texts manually is time-consuming. To solve this problem, we propose a method for visualizing texts that describe a topic changing over time. For this purpose, we first generate an event information graph from such texts by using an existing method. Then we transform it into two different graphs. The first graph shows changes in the topic that we obtain by separating the initial graph and comparing the resulting time-dependent graphs. The second graph depicts a summary of the topic that we obtain by extracting high-frequency words from the initial graph. The results of our experiment show that our method can visualize changes and important information described in the texts.","PeriodicalId":312162,"journal":{"name":"2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115815908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}